We're very excited to announce the next in a long line of Phish.net giveaways!  We're giving away 2 tickets to any show on the upcoming Mike Gordon tour!!  The rules are simple: just write an acrostic poem using any song title from Mike's newest album "Moss."  Choose a song and write a poem using the first letter from each word in the song title.  It can be humorous, dramatic, adventurous, melancholy... even a short morality play.   Whatever your chosen genre, your peers will get to vote on your comments.  We'll close the thread on the evening of March 4, then we'll take the 3 highest rated poems at that time and a small circle of old, beaded, crusty phish.net admins will convene in a dark room and subjectively select a winner.  The grand prize winner will get two tickets to any show on the upcoming tour, the two runners up will each get a signed copy of Moss on vinyl.  

We took a little liberty with the title of this blog post, as you no doubt noticed, but we hope you'll take the challenge seriously.  Contests anytime need to satisfy typical appeal: never devalued, sometimes thoughtlessly invented, lovingly lauded.

Please note that in order to qualify, you must have a Phish.net account, you must post between now and March 4, 2011 at midnight, and you must have a valid email address attached to your phish.net account.  

You may enter as many times as you like.  Also, don't forget to check out our Phan Food contest going on in the Phish.net Forum.  Good luck!

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The Blog returns with the 39th installment of the Mystery Jam series.  Just like every week, we will be playing for an MP3 download courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. The rules haven't changed: you need to correctly identify the song and the date to win. Post your guess in the comments. One guess per person per day (with the second “day” starting after I post the hint). The hint will come on Tuesday and the answer will be posted on Wednesday. Good luck....

Late Tuesday Hint:  Another week where we really don't need a hint.  Sigh.  

Wednesday Answer: 8/10/04 "Birds of a Feather." For any of you who may have thought that Phish couldn't bring it in 2.0, the defense rests.  Congrats to RabeldyNugs for nailing it within 10 minutes of it being posted.  Quite impressive.  The Blog will be back on Monday with MJXL.